Natalie Hodgson left London and the Foreign Office fifty years ago, for a new life in rural Shropshire. She set up a successful business growing lavender and keeping bees. Now she’s just had her first book published – at the age of 93. It’s called ‘Fateful Beauty’ and is the semi historical story of Frances Coke, who lived during England’s Civil War. Married off by her father to a man she didn’t love, her life was a short and unhappy one – she died at the age of 40. Natalie decided to tell her story because it was a lot which befell many women of her time.
Fateful Beauty: The Story of Francis Coke (1602-1642) by Natalie Hodgson is published by Eye Books ISBN: 1903070503
